Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham Young University
PhD, MS Wildlife & Wildlands Conservation, Brigham Young University
BS Zoology (Chemistry minor), Weber State University
BA Spanish, Weber State University

Courses Taught:

Conservation Ecology & Management
Introductory Biology
Field Biology

Research Interests:

I am primarily a conservation ecologist, broadly interested in determining how environmental and anthropogenic influences shape community assemblages of wildlife. Specifically, my work relates to biological invasions, human-modified resources, and contemporary climate change. Much of my recent work has focused on how species of desert bats will respond to contemporary climate change (via increased aridity) in deserts and how this will impact bat communities. I am also interested in how invasive species disrupt native communities. For example, I have been studying how feral horses displace native wildlife at water sources and the effect that has on the composition and structure of wildlife communities over space and time.

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Hall, LK, RT Larsen, RN Knight, KD Bunnell, and BR McMillan
. (2013). Water developments and canids in two North American deserts: a test of the indirect effect of water hypothesis. PLoS ONE8: 1-8.
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